Layer Intersection Group numbers

[Steve Jepson]

How do I keep the Layer Intersection Group numbers from changing?

Everytime I open the file they are not the way I saved them.

Do I have to lock all layers before saving each time, and then unlock them when I open the file again to work on it?

[Eduardo Rolon]

I think that in AC11 the layer intersection numbers are saved with the viewsets.

[Steve Jepson]

Yes. This fixed my problem.

Thanks.

[__archiben]

ejrolon wrote:
I think that in AC11 the layer intersection numbers are saved with the viewsets.

they have always been saved by layer combinations . . . which, of course, constitutes a part of the view definition . . .

[Eduardo Rolon]

I stand corrected, though that was what I though I wrote

[Link]

~/archiben wrote:
they have always been saved by layer combinations . . . which, of course, constitutes a part of the view definition . . .

That's right - a layer combination doesn't only save layer visibility, it also saves the status of locked/unlocked, wireframe/solid, and the interesction piority number. Along with visibility, each of these settings can be different for each layer in each layer combination.

Cheers,
Link.

[Steve Jepson]

The downside for me is that I don't to alway want to save a view of what I am working on, but I almost always want to maintain the layer intersect group numbers once I have set them.

Turn one layer off in a view set you are working on and if you want to save that new view, you will have toreset all of the layer intersect group numbers. Can I remember them all? No.

The causes me a lot of extra work.

I would prefer that when I assign a layer intersect group number in the Layer Settings window that it will stay that way unless I change it.

No automatic return to default settings please.

[Link]

It takes two seconds to create a view and this is how AC is meant to be used. It's an integral part of the workflow Steve, if you fight it, you're in for a lot of extra work, as you've noticed.

Cheers,
Link.

[Steve Jepson]

That's true. And I can delete it just as fast too so I should be no problem to make extra view sets, exept how do I get all of the intersect group nubmers I had all set up into my new view set?


I have no interest in reducing my productivity for the sake of orthodoxy.
I don't think it is reasonable to for the program to revert back to its default setting in I do not save my intersect group numbers in a view set.

It should stay the way I put it. That way each view set I create after that will also have those settings.

Can you change all intersect group numbers for all view sets at one time?
That would help.

[Link]

I'm not talking about being orthodox, I am just trying to help you understand that this is the way the program works. It always remembers the last view invoked - that's it. It's that simple, there is no default setting and there's no other tricks or workarounds.

Views can be used to your advantage, if you choose to use them!

Just trying to help...

Cheers,
Link.